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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 34 SW 1097
Type of record:	Findspot
Name:	Guston, Dover-Lydden by-pass - surface find of Palaeolithic handaxe

Summary

Guston, Dover-Lydden by-pass - surface find of Palaeolithic handaxe

Grid Reference:	TR 329 439
Map Sheet:	TR34SW
Parish:	GUSTON, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Finds

HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Full description

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Guston, Dover-Lydden by-pass - surface find of fairly small pointed handaxe with cream patina and some orange-stained patches, somewhat abraded and plough-damaged, found on NW slope of dry valley, on field to N of Duke of York's Royal Military School (1). Included in Southern Rivers Project (2, 3).

<1> Bradshaw J, 1976, Reports from local Secretaries and Groups, Ashford Archaeological society: Ashford (Article in serial). SKE29689.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-5.11, p149 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S5 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	Article in serial: Bradshaw J. 1976. Reports from local Secretaries and Groups, Ashford Archaeological society: Ashford.
<2>	Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-5.11, p149.
<3>	Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps]. S5.